Judge Michael Cicconetti has been handing out creative sentences for many years. How about this one:

90 Days in Jail - or Spend One Night Alone in the Woods?

Who was given this option? A young woman who abandoned kittens in local parks (she abandoned 35 kittens in all and 9 of them died). He offered her traditional sentences as well:

14 days in jail and 15 days under house arrest

$3,200 donation to the Humane Society and a $500 donation to park rangers

She took the night in the woods. And it was cold. And snowy. A fitting punishment? Or does this actually create a problem.

Imagine this

You are found guilty of the same crime but in a different area of your state and you are given the standard sentence: jail time. How would you feel if you found out that someone else served their sentence just by spending one night in the woods and no jail time?

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